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Alexxcon's Software Development Blog
Personal blog · alexxcons.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Alexxcon's Software Development Blog is a personal blog at alexxcons.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is about XFCE desktop shortcuts and the program launcher and does not mention this blog or its posts, so what HN readers value in the writing is unclear from the comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
For super common stuff, I have icons in my panel for them and I use the mouse. I open Terminal so often that I gave it its own global keyboard shortcut. For less often used things, I use the xfce program launcher, which I think is what you're looking for. I have it mapped to some keyboard shortcut (the muscle memory is so automatic I don't even remember what the shortcut is and I'm not at my PC at the moment). It au…
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on “XFCE 4.18 Released”Submitted XFCE 4.20 Released as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xfce Participation in GSoC 2021 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted XFCE 4.20 Pre1 Released (and Wallpaper Contest for XFCE 4.20) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Estimate on the Total Number of XFCE Users as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xfce accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shiny new things in Thunar thanks to GSoC 2021 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted XFCE 4.18 Released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thunar, GtkAction and a Big Mess as a story · 1 points
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